FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jeff Hauser, hauser@therevolvingdoorproject.org
The Revolving Door Project and 27 groups sent a letter to Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta Friday, urging her to promptly issue a recusal waiver for Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter to work on the Department’s case against Google. The groups, including the American Economic Liberties Project, Demand Progress, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, emphasized that ethics law does not require Jonathan Kanter to recuse and that Google’s attempts to insist otherwise is an effort to “bully regulators into submission.”
They go on to warn that, “if the DOJ does not grant Mr. Kanter a waiver to continue to participate in scrutiny of the company, it will not only be bending to these petulant and dangerous tactics, but giving other powerful corporate actors incentive to engage in similar behavior.”
The full letter is available on the Revolving Door Project’s website and was featured in Bloomberg on Monday.
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